Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a colorful view of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805), which is located some 6,000 light-years from Earth…

Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a colorful view of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805), which is located some 6,000 light-years from Earth…

The genes we inherit may have a subtle influence over whether we experiment with and make a habit of using cannabis.
A team led by researchers from Western University in Canada, the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), and…

For roughly 4.5 billion years, the Moon has kept Earth company. In the much shorter span of time that humans have been around, we’ve admired the great silver beacon in the night sky.
The Moon may soon also serve as our launchpad to…

It’s been a week since SpaceX launched the huge Starship rocket for the 11th time in a flight test that was widely considered a success.
The first-stage Super Heavy — the most powerful booster ever built — carried the upper-stage…

The Orionid meteor shower is set to impress skywatchers overnight on Monday, Oct. 20 through Tuesday, Oct. 21, through. With a new moon on Oct. 21, the night sky will be completely free of moonlight, offering some of the best viewing…

On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, tying the…

The eerie casts of the victims of the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius paint a desolate picture of the destruction the volcano wrought on ancient cities near modern Naples. Pompeii became a 2,000-year-old time capsule when the city was frozen…

Around 2,000 years ago, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius obliterated Pompeii and Herculaneum, entombing the two cities and victims within a scorching mix of molten rock, pumice, ash and gas. With the Roman cities frozen in time, archaeologists…

Powder and ready-to-drink protein sales have exploded, reaching over US$32 billion globally from 2024 to 2025. Increasingly, consumers are using these protein sources daily.
A new study by Consumer Reports, published on 14 October, 2025,…